OBIT: Cloyd S. CROFT, 1918, Sproul, Blair County, PA

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CROFT.

  Private Cloyd S. Croft, of Sproul, died at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., on 
Oct. 10 of pneumonia, his body being brought to his late home yesterday 
by Sergeant Edward Drake.  He was the son of Harry and Mary C. Croft of 
Sproul, in Greenfield township.  Death resulted from pneumonia, after 
an illness of two weeks, on Oct. 10.  The body was brought to his home 
in charge of Sergeant Edward Drake and the funeral took place on Oct. 
13, in charge of Rev. Calvin Skyles, pastor of Grace Reformed church at 
Claysburg.  Interment was made on the following Monday afternoon in 
Holsinger cemetery.  The dead soldier was born Sept. 9, 1894, and 
enlisted on June 1, 1918.  He was first sent to Camp Dix, at 
Wrightstown, N.J., and was later assigned to Company B, Thirty-first 
battalion, United States guards, and sent to Fort Ethan Allen.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Friday Morning, October 25, 1918